You should never have your best trousers on when you go out to fight for freedom and truth.

Written laws are like spiderwebs: they will catch, it is true, the weak and poor but would be torn in pieces by the rich and powerful.

There is no method by which men can be both free and equal.

A real leader is somebody who can help us overcome the limitations of our own individual laziness and selfishness and weakness and fear and get us to do better, harder things than we can get ourselves to do on our own.

Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

The U.S. presidency is a Tudor monarchy plus telephones.

Television has made dictatorship impossible, but democracy unbearable.

All the ills of democracy can be cured by more democracy.

There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.

Do that which consists in taking no action, and order will prevail.

If you must take care that your opinions do not differ in the least from those of the person with whom you are talking, you might just as well be alone.

An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run.

Politics is the art of the possible.